Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
“The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes,” he explained, my eyes still focused… — Daniel "Z" Hastings Copy Share Image
If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
There are moments on songs like "Violet" where it's still shrouded in metaphor, but it's quite, I don't know, explicit. And then… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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